Muslims in Parbhani, Maharashtra, met with the District Collector and SP regarding the insinuating comments on the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) and his Holy wives and provocative cartoons that surfaced on Facebook. They demanded the removal of comments and cartoons from the website. The delegation’s meeting with the SP proved positive as the SP immediately directed Inspector Vivek Mudgikar of Nanal Peeth Police Station to register a case against those who ...

Well-known Professor and rights activist, Dr. Ram Puniyani described the general lot of Indian Muslims ‘dismal’ in secular India as the situation of minorities’ rights have worsened over the last three decades. Ghettoised and alienated for long from the mainstream, Indian Muslims were now awakening and realising that the way out for them is acquisition of modern knowledge. Still the dream of equity for Muslims was a far thing and their security had been made precarious ...

Yet another book has levelled an allegation that then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao had connived at the demolition of Babri Masjid, claiming that the late Prime Minister went on to sit at a puja when the karsevaks began pulling the structure down and rose only when it was over. The charge relating to the demolition on Dec 6, 1992 has been made by eminent journalist Kuldip Nayar in his soon-to-be released autobiography Beyond the Lines being brought out by Roli Books. “My inf...

Voices against harassment and victimisation of innocent Muslim youth by security agencies in the name of anti-terror operations are getting louder. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind will organise a public meeting on July 8 to provide a platform for the victims to narrate their stories before the people. The aim of the public meeting is to remind the new Samajwadi Party (SP) government the promise party made before elections about releasing innocent Muslims who are locked in jail only on the ground of sus...

The Supreme Court on July 2 disallowed a plea given by the Narendra Modi government to stay the Gujarat High Court order directing it to pay compensation to over 500 shrines damaged during the 2002 riots. A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra instead asked the state government to tell if any study was undertaken to assess the damage caused to the religious structure and the cost involved in their reconstruction. During the brief hearing, additional Advocate General Tushar Meht...

A contempt petition was filed on July 3 against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the Council of Ministers for rejecting sanction to prosecute cabinet minister Purshottam Solanki in an alleged Rs 400 crore fishing contract scam without taking Governor’s sanction as directed by the court. The high court had directed the Gujarat government in its March 30 order to decide the plea seeking sanction to prosecute Solanki under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, stating that Govern...

Senior Congress leader Shankersinh Vaghela “advised” Muslims in the state of Gujarat to be united against the BJP and vote for the Congress or else again “face total ruin” under Narendra Modi. Addressing a well-attended meet organised by the minorities department of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee at Koba, Vaghela said Muslims should remember that the BJP has always made them a poll issue while the Congress always stood for them. The remark did not go down well ...